Pandeglang in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Pandeglang plotted against Banten and Indonesia. While Banten and Indonesia both rose steadily, Pandeglang's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Pandeglang's incremental SNDi rose from 5.46 to 6.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pandeglang ranked 3rd out of 7 cities in Banten and 304th out of 366 in Indonesia as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Basirhat, India
• Huangshan, China
• Thakurgaon, Bangladesh
• Jincheng Town, China
• Zhengdian, China
• Vladimir, Russia

In new street additions, Pandeglang and Basirhat both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Jincheng Town built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Pandeglang and Basirhat both became progressively more disconnected, while Jincheng Town grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Pandeglang and Basirhat have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.